4 December 2018

Annotation on 30 April 2019: Exhibition 'Hysterical Mining' of Kunsthalle Wien in context of Vienna Biennale For Change 2019 happens from 29 May until 6 October 2019.

Preview Vienna Biennale 2019: Kunsthalle Wien curators explore the development of digital technologies and artificial intelligence from gender-critical perspectives

Recently, the exhibitions and projects of next year's Vienna Biennale (29 May – 6 October 2019) under the title 'Vienna Biennale For Change 2019: Brave New Virtues. Shaping Our Digital World' were announced together with the Biennale partners such as University of Applied Arts Vienna or Kunsthalle Wien; last mentioned presented the Biennale exhibition 'Hysterical Mining' where visitors will get a view on digital technologies and artificial intelligence from gender-critical perspectives concerning the creation of power structures by questioning how unisex the digital world is and how men and women are actively creating - and not only passively using, the digital infrastructure which forms people's identity.

Curators of the exhibition Vanessa Joan Müller (image right), Head of Dramaturgy Kunsthalle Wien, and Anne Faucheret (image left), Curator Kunsthalle Wien, explore the digital power structures from the angle of feminist theories from the 1970s until nowadays for letting visitors delve into intellectual and political thoughts about our digital past and future. It's announced that the artists of the exhibition will continue with their works the intellectual time travel from critique of the past to future solutions by approaching the use and production of new technologies from other perspectives.

fig. from left: Portrait of Anne Faucheret; photo © Marlene Rahmann. Art historian and art critic Anne Faucheret is one of the curators of the Vienna Biennale 2019 exhibition 'Hysterical Mining' at Kunsthalle Wien. Since 2014, she has curated several Kunsthalle Wien exhibitions such as most recently 'Saâdane Afif. This Is Ornamental' (2018) about the creation of history and myths.

Image right: Portrait Vanessa Joan Müller; photo © Leonard Qylafi. Vanessa Joan Müller is curator and holds a PhD in art history. Before she became Head of Dramaturgy at Kunsthalle Wien in 2013, Vanessa Joan Müller was director of the Kunstverein for the Rhineland and Westphalia in Düsseldorf, research curator of the project European Kunsthalle in Cologne, curator at the Frankfurter Kunstverein and involved in several other international art projects. The currently running Kunsthalle Wien exhibition 'Antarctica. An Exhibition on Alienation' reflecting upon questions concerning social identities such as "What other forms of relationship to the self and to the world do we need?" was co-curated by Vanessa Joan Müller.


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